page_title: Shades of green
section_title: Fern green
hierarchical_section_title: Shades of green / Green in biological nature / Fern green
caption_attribution_description: Fern plants at Muir Woods, California
context_page_description: Varieties of the color green may differ in hue, chroma or lightness, or in two or three of these qualities. Variations in value are also called tints and shades, a tint being a green or other hue mixed with white, a shade being mixed with black. A large selection of these various colors is shown below.
context_section_description: Fern green is a color that resembles ferns. A Crayola crayon named fern was created in 1998, which is a lighter shade of the top color shown on the right.
  The first recorded use of fern green as a color name in English was in 1902.
caption: Ferns at Muir Woods, California
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